Supporting Free Software is an integral part of building a good future for us and generations to come. Why? The reason is simple. Proprietary ideologies are the enemies of human progress. If we, as a species, cannot contribute to the world, then we will never advance. Transparency is paramount. How can we ensure that the biological augmentations we receive in the future function as they are supposed to without reviewing and auditing the code?
Let's say you needed a pacemaker to live. It is sold by a company that has made the source code proprietary and closed. The unit you have is known to have a bug that causes it to give out at random intervals, but this was discovered after your doctor prescribed you this unit. There are no other units available. The company responsible for the production of your unit has simply stated: "We're working on it."
How is this in any way acceptable? Your life is in constant mortal danger because of the company's unwillingness to patch the bug. This would never happen if the code and hardware were released under the GPL.
Build a better future. There is no reason to support the opponents of Freedom.
Jaxson Sanders
Look how well FOSS worked for Linux compared to macOS
Wyatt Robinson
Girl in image?
Cooper Jones
>comparing a kernel to an OS, again...
Owen Scott
>I wish i was home upgrading my pacemaker kernel >the new pace-package supports rates up to 570bpm >I hated anyway how I've had these weird kernel panics so every other day I have to restart the ssh server or I'm going to cardiac arrest
Lucas Young
You are right but your reasoning is bad.
Thomas Butler
Anri Okita. Yep, she's a pornstar.
Cooper Kelly
Anri Okita
Charles Anderson
All you can see of her is fake, so don't even bother.
Cooper Reyes
I think free software is great, but I'd take a company pacemaker over a "free" driver any day.
If the company pacemaker fails, people will sue their ass and the company goes bankrupt.
If the free driver fails, nobody is liable and it's your own fault, because things are delivered "as is".
Also GPL is literally cancer. MIT or GTFO.
Bentley Campbell
Using pacemakers is a very bad example. Vast majority of people would prefer the manufacturers code to the FOSS version. This is because the other one is done by professionals with strict requirements that there is no possible failures, while the other one is done by hobbyists with no legal bindings.
That is not to say FOSS cannot outperform propertiary software. In the desktop/laptop ecosphere FOSS software is vastly superior.
Ian Ross
Was
Xavier Peterson
don't think so
Joshua Cox
ya, just read Richard Stallman multiple books
Eli Long
RIP in peace
Jayden Russell
Surely she's could be expanded to either "she is" or "she was"?
Ayden Turner
This, research on patent trolls if you doubt
Angel Garcia
This, she has also fucked niggers, which invalidates her
Ayden Barnes
I support this fully. Death to non-free software.
Liam Walker
she didn't though, you're mixing her up with some other actress
Kevin Walker
she was. she's testing out music with a new album and she still travels to variety shoots, either porn or modeling.
Brandon Allen
>implying women are real creatures fuck normies always keep me chuckling
Anthony Jones
>Also GPL is literally cancer. MIT or GTFO. This
Camden Wood
If you have principles, why not make it public domain? Copy"right" is a sham; don't even humor it.
Wyatt Lee
eh, she looks like a chubby girl who works out and had fat injections (or whatever it is) in her ass and tits. nothing looks like silicon. she is a jap so unlikely to have had facial surgery (more common in koreans and chinese). face caked with makeup but it looks ok on camera
Hunter Hill
Stop posting pervert things
Daniel Clark
is that taylor swift?
Brandon Wood
no its rihana grande
Jordan Walker
is all her shit censored or waht
Juan Barnes
pls respond
Nathan Ramirez
Responded
Christopher Garcia
does she have any uncensored scenes pls respond again
Gavin Bell
All she's done is JAV what do you think
Nathan Wright
Have another (yes)
Cameron Collins
end my life thanks
Brody White
this is what you get for posting a serious topic but use womyn to get people's attention. hope you're glad OP.
regardless /thread
Eli Garcia
I think you are implying that FOSS is not made by professionals and only for hobbyists. That is not true faggot. I guess those guys at google, microsoft, red hat are just hobbyists.
Ryan Torres
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Dylan Powell
Why she tagged him? Is she in love or something?
Nolan Perry
MOMMY
Daniel Powell
...
Jason Sanchez
No it's not you reh-tard, because there is no structurally systematized solution in the stead of fat hobbyist programmers, it will always fall to those more organized and powerful undertakings like corporations, ya know, the ones who actually have a bit more incentive to do stuff other than >muh goodwill and software principles
I mean, have you ever heard of a normie that could give two shits about the "principles" of software?
This is the same reason why the linux desktop still sucks, no one has enough time, effort, and power at hand to design a great workflow and a pretty look and feel that are guided by the basics of good design, because they aren't getting paid, and if they are they're begging for handouts, and if they're not doing that there just aren't enough manhours to go around within their organization to care much about anything but getting the thing to properly install the first time and not come upon dumb errors while doing everyday tasks
Lincoln King
>tfw the NSA gets taken over by free software fanboys and they release all the source code to everything, all at once
Andrew Green
DAYUMMM
Xavier Flores
Hnnngh.
John Moore
>Proprietary ideologies are the enemies of human progress. No. All progress so far has been done because people created stuff to make $$$. What has the free stuff generated that actually sticked? A few database management systems. That's it. >that pacemaker rant The solution is to invent your own pacemaker brainlet. Make it proprietary and sell it for money. Oh, you can't? Then how were you planning on fixing an open-source pacemaker? Oh, somebody else was supposed to do it for you? The people who can do that are creating proprietary pacemakers and making dosh. Stop being a useless commie and get skills faggot.